Word Origin & History

graduate late 15c., from M.L. graduatus, pp. of graduari "to take a degree," from L. gradus "step, grade" (see grade). The abbreviated form grad is attested from 1871. The verb is 1580s (trans.), 1807 (intrans.).

Example Sentences for graduated

The customs of the University, on the other hand, required that the student of theology should have graduated in Arts.

I was there the summer after I graduated; and I've never forgotten it.

Experts can so manipulate the tint plates that the lights will be graduated from the softest to the most glaring.

He graduated in 1829, being second in rank in a class of forty-six.

It was a proud and happy day for Theodore Roosevelt when, in the summer of 1880, he was graduated from Harvard.

After I was graduated, I used to devote two or three months of the year to these pursuits.

Broca recommends to travelers an anthropometer consisting of a graduated rod with a movable index attached.

It had been begun in the spring after he had graduated from college.

I have been informed that he had just graduated when he came into the army.

He had graduated from the nursery, and had found his place on the battle-field of life.